Do dogs dream? Most pet owners know the answer to that question…it is a resounding “yes!” Many owners witness the humorous spectacle of their pup whining, growling, twitching, licking their lips, slightly wagging their tail, or even moving their legs in their sleep. It is funny to witness, yet it is intriguing at the same time. So, the big question really is: what do dogs dream about?

Believe it or not, dogs are very similar to humans in their sleep cycles and patterns. This affords scientists with a comprehensive understanding that aids in the study of dogs and dreaming. Scientists began with studying the brainwaves of canines during their sleep; they were then reproduced and measured by researchers by using an EEG (electroencephalogram). They found that when dogs fall asleep, they enter in lightly and their breathing is even and they are susceptible to being awakened easily (very similar to humans). They then fall into a deeper sleep; their breathing slows down, deepens, becomes more irregular, and they begin to experience REM (Rapid Eye Movements), which is a sign of dreaming. They go through this cycle several times each night, and this is commonly known as the REM cycle. Scientists believe that when their eyes move back and forth rapidly they are watching pictures move quickly through their line of vision. This is the time that you begin to see your pet twitching and making subtle noises. Dogs, also like humans, require a good night’s sleep to stay healthy and happy, so it is important their sleep cycle does not get interrupted often.

An interesting fact that scientists have discovered in their research of dogs’ sleep cycles is that it appears that small dogs tend to dream more often than larger dogs. As of yet, researchers are still unsure of the reason. Does it mean that smaller dogs have more vivid imaginations than larger dogs? Does their size have a direct correlation to their breathing habits in order to prompt dreaming? As scientists spend more time studying the sleeping habits of dogs, more information will yield itself.

But all this information still doesn’t answer the question listed above: what do dogs dream about? Well, what do humans dream about? Fantasies of being the star player in a professional sporting event, embarrassing moments that are completely irrevocable and mortifying, or maybe a weird nightmare that cannot seem to be explained. We can only explain what humans dream about because we are humans. So how can we answer this question about dogs and their dreams? The best answer that can be given as of yet is simply this: dogs most likely dream about the same kinds of things humans do. Fantasies of getting that turkey dinner, of catching that squirrel. Or maybe it will be something as simple as recounting the events of the day. No one can really say as of right now. Maybe as science and research grows, new and innovative technology will be bred that will allow us to see into the dreams of dogs. For now, we will simply have to be content with our imaginations when it comes to dogs and their dreams.

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Hivernal Meditation

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People spend their whole lives in search of finding their true love and some do not find it even well into their late ages. There is an inspiring woman in relation to psychic predictions to motivate you into getting a psychic love reading. A love reading is so necessary because love is something nobody should live without.

A love reading should help anybody in search of love because of the advice it will give you. Nobody is perfect when it comes to love therefore receiving psychic predictions through a love reading can help prevent a potential disaster. Psychic predictions can help a potentially relationship ending fight from forming. If you know about a quarrel that is in your future, you would probably try your best to work around it or have it sorted out before the fight occurs. Receiving a love reading and obtaining psychic predictions can also give you a great advantage.

Love should be something that is peaceful and relaxing. A love reading can help provide you with the love that you should have. Psychic predictions will obviously come as a great weapon on your part. So back to the story about a love reading that provided this woman with the psychic predictions necessary to live her dream love life. This woman had been searching and searching for somebody to lean on and share all of life’s beauties and ugliness. Her problem was that she was just waiting for this love to fall in her lap. What she came to realize after years of waiting for this perfect love to fall from the sky, she realized that it wasn’t going to fall from the sky.

She realized that she is actually going to have to do something about it in order to find this kind of love. Now that she was a middle aged woman she had no idea of how to go about her life long goal. She received a recommendation to receive a love reading. The person who gave her the love reading recommendation had doubts that this woman was even meant for love. She wanted her to receive psychic predictions on whether it was actually in the cards for her or not. If not, she wanted her to move on with her life instead of dreaming on about this non-existent perfect love that she was hoping to find.

The psychic predictions this woman received from her love reading were so powerful that she now recommends all of those around her to get a love reading too. With the psychic predictions she received from her love reading, she put in a lot of effort for them to come true. She finally found the direction she was supposed to look for her love in order to make her dreams come true.

The friend who had been doubting the existence of a perfect match for her decided to get a love reading for herself as well. She felt dumbfounded by the fact that there was a reason for her friends’ everlasting belief that her perfect mate was out there somewhere she just had to find him. She wanted to be revealed her own psychic predictions through her own love reading and find her way as well.

 

U.S. poet laureate Kay Ryan speaks, teaches at Stanford Kay Ryan may have dreamed of becoming a carpenter, but when she was about 10, she had “an amazing dream where I was chasing a piece of paper. And I know it had the most beautiful poem in the world on it,” recalled the U.S. poet laureate, who is teaching a class at Stanford. Read more on Stanford Report

Can a psychic affect your love life? Is a psychic influencing you right now? And is there anything you can do about it? These are burning questions that probably wouldn’t have entered your head if you hadn’t just read this intro! But is it possible that your love life can really be influenced by some psychic mumbo-jumbo? In some countries such as The Philippines this is in fact a widely used tool for dating, to secure a mate or to get rid of pesky competition. And the reason that it is widely used is that it is effective. And Filipinos, being the practical, sensible and sceptical people that they are, who tend not part with their hard earned pesos for nothing, use these psychics.

Ok, what kind of thing can the right kind of psychic do for your love life? Well, for one thing they can make you more attractive in general in a psychic sense. Have you ever wondered about certain individuals who seem to have no obviously attractive features but they seem to draw love partners to them? To psychic eyes the reason is often visible as a psychic net that captures the other person and draws them in and this net can be cut with a psychic blade in an instant.

With psychic help people that you are interested in will become aware of you in a positive light. There will be a certain magnetism that compels the other person to close the gap. If there is someone that you have your eye on already then the psychic can provide you with the means to bring that person to you. If compatibility is an issue for you then that can be enhanced by bringing down the barriers and meshing personalities into a lasting relationship. And the reverse can also be done if you find that a third party is trying to gatecrash your existing relationship and you need to repel the interloper.

You may have doubts about the morality of influencing people by psychic means but it is more common and normal than you might think. When it comes to love and sex the emotional tides are enormous and anyone with any natural psychic ability has an unfair advantage. Hence we see those lucky few that have the pick of the catch. Those whose psychic magnetism is reinforced by their confidence and their confidence reinforced by their success. Wouldn’t it be nice to get a head start like that? And think of all the messing around and expense it would save you! Besides, most people in western society are psychically isolated and have lost the ability to connect at more than a superficial level so they need a helping hand.

So, what kind of psychic do you need to do this kind of stuff? The short answer is you need a good one, and one that has a talent for doing this kind of work. Most psychics read cards or use some other kind of divining. They tell you about your life and you may come away with some useful insight about your past, present and future. This will probably be couched in vague terms that will give you that “aha!” moment when a revelation falls into place.

On the other hand, psychics that can remotely study and influence the people around you can intervene on your behalf directly. This level of power requires a high degree of talent, will, skill, dedication and energy and the people that can do this are few and far between. To be effective the psychic work that these people do for you is highly personalized. They will ask you questions and possibly ask for names and photographs before magical rituals are carried out. Then you may get something in the mail that carries a spell or some form of energy is directed your way. These psychics also tend to originate in parts of the world where this kind of ability is recognised, nurtured and practised. And one of these places is of course, the Philippines.

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I Love My Dreams!

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I love my dreams because more often than not,they’re restful and relaxing.  Usually they’re replays of daydreaming visions I’ve had during the day.  Most of my dreams are about fishing, the sand and the surf and drinks with little umbrellas in them.  That could be because I spend a lot of time during the day either fishing or thinking about the one that got away!
 
From what I’ve read, it seems the more complicated your life is, the more chaotic your dreams at night will be.  My one steadfast rule of life is never doing any unnecessary thinking!  Adhering to this imperative has permitted me to rarely ever have any confusing dreams.  It’s saved me a lot of money because I haven’t had to visit a psychiatrist to help me figure out what my dreams might mean! 

Last night my dream started with a soothing scene of the surf gently rolling onto a sugar white beach. There’s still a hint of foggy mist near the water as the sun begins to push the morning clouds aside, making the day warmer by the minute.

 A pelican stands at water’s edge waiting for anything edible that might wash up on shore.   It slowly moves toward me, its eyes focused on my bait bucket full of shrimp. 
No doubt it’s seen other fishermen snatching a shrimp out of a bait bucket, to know that there’s an easy dinner if he can get rid of me long enough to score a shrimp.

While sipping my last cup of coffee, my rod that was stuck in the sand suddenly goes into spasms, as something out there in the surf jerks on my line and turns the sleepy morning into a burst of activity.  Grabbing the rod and setting the drag on the reel, I pull back on something that felt like I’d hooked onto a refrigerator. 

After wrestling with the fish which turned out to be a nice flounder, I tossed him in the cooler, stuck another shrimp on my hook, and then threw my new bait out into the surf.  By now the pelican was gone, disturbed by the frenetic activity that had suddenly erupted near him.

Dream professionals agree to some point that dreams are snippets, or memories of your daily experiences.  I’ve read that somewhere I think, but it could be an original thought of mine, which I hope it’s not.  If it is, then I’m guilty of unnecessary thinking and that could lead to all sorts of mental and physical activity which might interfere with my fishing time. 

Through the years I’ve learned to interpret my own dreams.  It’s not really difficult if you don’t do any deep thinking during the daylight hours.  I find it more satisfying to daydream about things that I like to do, hoping that my night time dreaming will be along the same lines.  It seems to work!   It’s a better plan than thinking about things like work and paying the electric bill.  Those things will give you nightmares!

Our dreams are merely our brain replaying our daytime activities, but not always in the same time frame as when we experienced them.  All of our actions are stored in our brain and get replayed at night through dreams. It may take years for some of those experiences to rise to the surface; splashed across the big screen of our mind while we’re sleeping!

 Some say that our brain is simply continuing the action that our awake brain exercises every day.  That’s why I try to keep my mental activity to a minimum.  This does seem like a lot of excessive thinking.  I’m sure I’ll be punished for this indiscretion.

Relaxing meditation by thewisdomwarrior.com Possibly the most relaxing video on the web!!

Local Briefs, 3-10-10

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The concept of a dream home, in theory, is by all means dreamy- finding that perfect place to call home, the place the suits your needs and desires to a tee… but, if you’re looking for a dream home as a couple, the dreaminess can quickly become a nightmare, where conflicting ideas clash and cast a vast shadow of doubt and confusion. With the two that it takes to tango, a delicate dance can melt into a tug ‘o’ war- if you don’t development a system to explore your mutual parameters and come to some sort on consensus. After all, you both need to be happy with your new home.

So, here’s where a certain amount of flexibility will need to come into play, and where your initial vision of the perfect dream home may need to transform somewhat. But, fret not, there’s nothing more exciting than realizing two minds can come together and actualize a dream “together”.

First off, it’s important to have this discussion about what you want in a home before soliciting the help of an agent. Truly, you don’t want to be out there looking at homes, only to realize you’re on opposite sides of the fence. This will just create tension for all parties involved, and end up costing you a lot of time and energy.

So it’s advised that once you’ve decided to purchase a new home, that you first sit down separately and make up your own personal list of all the parameters that would define your dream home. Include such things as location, style of home, lot size, waterfront or not, urban or suburban, number of bedrooms, landscaping, special features, condition (would you rather a place that you’ll renovate to your liking or a home that’s already up to snuff). With this list go as big as you want with all the things that you’d ideally want in a dream home. Now is your chance to get it all down on paper and rejoice!

But… here’s the catch. The next step is to sit down with your partner and to share your lists. Try not to make comments, like, ” Oh God no…. you don’t want to live there, do you honey? Be respectful and initially just listen as objectively as possible to each person’s list of dream home parameters.

From here you can start another list- together. Discover any points of commonality between your two separate lists and to list them under, “our dream home”. There may only be a couple, or there may be quite a few. Once you have your list of common points, open up a friendly conversation about why you are both interested in these particular parameters. You may find that this dialogue progresses, and that you begin to find some other common desires. Make sure you jot them down as well.

Once you’ve established this positive connection, where you realize you have some common ideas from which to establish a framework, then go back and open up a discussion about the parameters that seem to be at odds. Let each person voice why they feel each of their parameters is important. The other can then explain why this is not important to them, or likewise can express that they may be willing to be flexible on this point. From here you can create another couple of lists. One can be called the “maybe our dream home”, and in it you can put the points/parameters that may not be 100% aligned on, but where there seems to be some room for negotiation. The other two lists can remain as your individual lists, and these will contain the points/parameters that you can’t seem to come to mutual agreement on- yet.

From here you need to decide that you want some of those “maybe our dream home” parameters to get on to the “our dream home” list. So have a thorough discussion of all the pros and cons on your “maybe” list and then see what seems to want to make the jump onto the “our dream home” list.

Pat yourselves on the back for making great progress. Next, you might consider going back to your individual lists and seeing what hypothetically would fit with your established “our dream home” parameters. Maybe one partner will become more flexible on certain points or features now that the initial vision has changed. Play around with the left over puzzle pieces and mutually see what can fit together to create your new idea of a dream home- an idea you’ve built together and can both love and enjoy.

This guided meditation is from www.quietmindcafe.com and is one part of a three-part relaxation and stress management system. This guided meditation uses visualization techniques and a subtle rhythm to guide your mind to the relaxing Alpha state. You will experience a deep relaxation of the body and mind. The focus of this meditation is to quiet the Somatic Nervous System (Voluntary Nervous System). Created by quietmindcafe.com For a complete relaxation practice use Simple Relaxation to relax the muscles of the body and the somatic nervous system. Use Quiet Mind to restore the experience of calm and balance to the mind and central nervous system. Finally, use Sympathetic Breathing to restore profound relaxation to the heart and autonomic nervous system — your fight or flight response. Together these three practices form a profound relaxation system that is essential for any stress management or stress relief practice.